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"It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain."
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"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."
Death
"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
Life
"The language of my books has shaped me as a man."
Books
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
Movies
"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies."
Power
"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
People
"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
Work
"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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